by Dan Mitchell | May 18, 2026 | Blogs, Taxation
When I write about bad tax policy from international bureaucracies, that usually means I’m complaining about the International Monetary Fund or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. And for good reason. Those...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 16, 2025 | Blogs, Taxation
I’m not a big fan of international bureaucracies. Most of my hostility has been directed at the International Monetary Fund and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for the simple reason that they actually have some...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2024 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Tax Harmonization, Taxation
When I give speeches about the global fight between tax competition and tax harmonization, especially when speaking in jurisdictions with good tax policy, I usually point out that that compromise is a bad idea. To be sure, politicians from high-tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 9, 2023 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Yesterday’s column pointed out why supporters of a global corporate tax cartel are misguided. Today, I’m going to admit that I made a mistake. Not yesterday, but two years earlier. Back in 2021, I put together a list of winners and losers from the proposed...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 8, 2023 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
Early in the Biden years, I wrote a three-part series (here, here, and here) to explain why a global minimum tax on companies is a bad idea. As I told the BBC back in 2021, this proposed tax cartel is a scheme to increase the tax burden...
